Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

It was once enough to humiliate someone or shame them in some way to make a point, today it seems we have a need to kill. Killing was the right of Kings for those that poached a deer from his forest or stole a loaf of bread. I don’t think Charles is doing that again.
We in modern society have taken our method of humiliation a step further and now take lives over the most trivial of reasons. Some places still value family honor and having your children violated in front of you or you in front of them is a very big deal, and it might be here as well if our culture put pride higher on our value list. We show pride in our sports teams, our cars, but not always in our family members or where we live.
Our nation has suffered from lack of pride in who we put in our offices of power. All it takes is money, not brains, not ability, not humility, not civility, just money. Look at a good percentage of what is running the federal and state governments and very possibly local as well and you can verify that statement. Are these people proud? Yes, of the fact that they have put one over on everyone else.
The founders put the electoral college in the loop to cover illiteracy and it may have worked very well for them. At that stage of the game it was wealthy land owners that had the vote and most could read and write but I suppose there were a few that could not. Now the electoral college is used along with gerrymandering to put the vote back into the hands of the wealthiest which also happens to be the smallest group. This is not what the proponents of the college would have us believe, it is all about fairness, if by fair you mean the minority get to run things.
So why mention humility, because we need to become informed about how our government works so that we can start having it work for us,”We the People” not just the folks with the deep pockets and cheesy grins.
Most of these elected officials go to DC with reasonable amounts of money in their personal bank accounts. The pay they get from the jobs they do are good but won’t turn them into some of the riches people in the country. That happens because they are not monitored and are allowed to accept bribes and payoffs, no pride, no honor, just greed. It does not matter which party they represent or how righteous they claim to be, temptation gets to most of them.
Somehow we need to change the rules. It seems that it can be done with abortion laws, human rights laws, and many other causes so we should be able to take away the idea that corporations are people too. This in truth gives the money behind the companies power they should not have. Do away with super pacs and all that sort of crap, put the political rallies back in the park not the ball park and let everyone come.